Chapter 17 – Seven-Star Herbs (2/2)
【Wild Wolf] (Normal Monster)
Level: 18
Attack: 77-100
Defense: 30
Health: 500
Skill: 【Whirling Claws (LV-2)]
Description: Wild Wolves, a group of creatures that occupy the wilderness, seen to attack players and pets. Although Ba Huang City sent troops to annihilate them long ago, the Wild Wolves still go on abnormal rampages around Ba Huang City.
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Looking at the creature’s attributes, I was a bit shocked. It was obvious that I couldn’t fight it. No, it wouldn’t even be a fight, it would be a one-sided massacre and obviously not in my favor. With an attack of 100, my cloth armor defense had no way of holding up. So I grabbed my Bramble Thorn Sword and went around the bushes, then I turned slightly right and went straight towards the middle plain of the valley. This way I would avoid the hordes of creatures in the forest.
Far away, in the open grassland, Tyrant of Western Chu and his 10-man team were killing monsters. He shouted out, then a golden hexagram glowed and hovered over the edge of his sword. Sha sha! The Wild Wolf received a combo of two slices and lost almost 300 HP. It made me jealous looking at the special combo moves that Tyrant of Western Chu had. It was both elegant and powerful, unlike himself.
Looking at my own skills, other than [Turmoil Sword], the rest of my skills were centered around healing and buffs. If I wanted a main attack move, then I needed to create a new skill. Thankfully, it was possible within this game. But, creating skills was no easy feat. If you didn’t have enough experience or practice, you couldn’t create one. By my estimates, only 2 or 3 players in the entire game had made unique skills.
Whatever, money came first. As long as I had an active and strong heart, this era belonged to me!…
I avoided Tyrant of Western Chu’s training group like the plague, and entered the eastern region of the Seven-Star Valley. Stepping on the soft moist grass, I walked slowly in the jungle. Of course, I would like to be anywhere but there in the jungle where wolves could ambush me at every angle, but I had be in the jungle to get the Seven-Star Herbs. There was a saying for this, no pain meant no gain. Before long, I saw dots of luster on top of the rocks that were in front of me. Awesome! So I raced ahead, and indeed, on top of the rock was a seven-colored herb, growing like grapes on a vine. It was a level 3 Seven-Star Herb!
After picking countless amounts of Silver-Leaf Herbs, my [Herb-Picking] skill was already level 3. I took out my shovel, carefully traced along the roots of the Seven-Star Herb, and gently dug it out. This was a basic herb picking technique. In various books that I read before, they also said: “The sap of plants comes from the roots”. A lot of medicine used roots as its ingredients. The same probably applied to the Seven-Star Herbs in front of me, and..done!
After digging the herb out, a sound rang——
Ding!
System Notification: Congratulations! You have collected 【Seven-Star Herb]x2
Indeed, if you picked up the herbs with the roots, you got double the amount. Looked like my magnificent plan to create level 3 pills was no longer so far away now!
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While I was still absorbed in the frenzy of uprooting the Seven-Star Herbs, I heard a low growl behind me. Grrrr! On instinct, I dropped the shovel and spun around. Holy crap! A Wild Wolf was about 10 meters away and ready to pounce.
Raising my hand, I drew my Bramble Thorn Sword. [Turmoil Sword] immediately activated, giving me an extra 10% attack damage, which was currently +11.7 attack. When I level up later and get better gear, this 10% bonus attack damage would become more useful but it was still quite an impressive skill right now. With such a great effect, [Turmoil Sword] deserved its rank of being an SS rank skill. The SS rank was inferior only to the SSS rank, so it should be a near God-Tier skill right?
I went and slashed at the wolf. The Bramble Thorn Sword arced through the air and landed on head of the Wild Wolf. Ouch!
“142!”
Good attack! At the same time, the wolf jumped and also slashed at me with his claws. Weirdly, there was some sort of red glow on the tip of its claws. Wait! It was【Whirling Claws (LV-2)] . Before I could finish my thought, the wolf’s claws reached my shoulder, gifting me with a wave of pain. I assure you that the pain was not fake. It felt like my shoulder just got hit by a brick. At the same time, my HP also dropped by 119 points!
I waved my hand to cast Hemostasis which recovered 100 of my HP. At the same time, I continued to attack with two continuous strikes. Although they were both solid hits, I didn’t push on and prepared my legs to dodge when the Wild Wolf attacked. After eating the two attacks, the wolf suddenly pounced. Should I dodge left, right, LEFT. But I didn’t dodge completely, even though I could have sworn that I dodged the attack, my speed was lacking and the hit glanced off of me. I lost 71 HP. Looked like this wouldn’t be too hard as long as the wolf didn’t use his skill too much.
Every time the wolf attacked, I leaped away trying to dodge its attacks. But I failed time after time because of my lack of speed, and finally, I gave up trying to dodge. The Wild Wolf’s agility was high, far higher than mine, and even if I dodged earlier, I would still get hit because the wolf would see me shifting and change its attack accordingly. I was not going to bother anymore and would attack it straight on…
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I heard the wolf cry Wuuu. A final howl before it dropped dead beside me. I picked up the coins, and turn to leave. It was tough beating the wolf, but I must move on. There was money around here, I could smell it.
After picking quite a few Seven-Star Herbs, I realized that the Seven-Star Herbs only grew on rocks. So in the valley, I circled around the scattered rocks, trying to find stalks of Seven-Star Herbs. If my luck held up, I wouldn’t run into the Tyrant of Western Chu’s group.